Using data from the JWST, an amateur on Reddit created the first image of the TRAPPIST-1 system. JWST, a telescope so powerful that it makes Hubble look like someone smeared their thumb on the lens, has already taken a long … Read More
Authors Chris Impey – University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona Daniel Apai – Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona The ingredients for life are spread throughout the universe. While Earth is the only known place in … Read More
In a galaxy far, far away lies an exoplanet circling a binary system that contains a neutron star or black hole. Astronomers believe they have discovered the first extragalactic exoplanet beyond our own galaxy. The binary system M51-ULS-1, located 28 … Read More
We’ve wanted to visit other star systems for decades. There’s just one problem: they’re so far away that even the closest one would take tens of thousands of years to reach using conventional spaceflight. Physicists, on the other hand, are … Read More
Astronomers have discovered a planet nearly the same size as Earth that orbits in its star’s habitable zone, where liquid water could exist on its surface, a new study said. The presence of liquid water also indicates the planet could … Read More
Just 20 light-years from the Sun, a strange rogue planet without a star roams the Milky Way. And, according to a study published in The Astrophysical Journal, this strange, nomadic world has a magnetic field that is 4 million times … Read More